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Most important Blogs

  • Daniel Overby Hansen’s Blog
  • Rodrigo Jorge’s Blog
  • Alex Zaballa’s Blog
  • Alejandro Diaz’s Blog
  • Kyohei Yamada’s Blog (in Japanese)

Most important MOS Notes for Upgrades and Patching

  • KB123450 – AutoUpgrade Tool
  • KA958 – Download Patch Advisor note
  • KB139585 – Cloud Premigration Advisor Tool (CPAT) Analyzes Databases for Suitability of Cloud Migration

Helpful Resources apart from the official Oracle pages

  • AutoUpgrade Composer (Marcus Vinicius)
  • Data Pump Log File Analyzer (Markus Doeringer)
  • CPAT Composer (Markus Doeringer)
  • Migration Toolkit – Latency Calculator (Markus Doeringer)
  • Oracle Kernel C Functions
  • Oracle Stack Trace Analyzer
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